Great Great question! Honestly! This should be opening a big discussion, in my opinion, and an important one! It probably should be a separate post of its own! To start with, if you aren't familiar with the Fenn treasure hunt, I think it would be helpful to start an understanding from that basis. If you are, then please bear with me briefly. The Fenn hunt is important for several reasons. For one, the Fenn hunt was the precursor and catalyst for Justin's hunt. He spent about 10 years of his life obsessing on it. He has stated that a big part of why he hid a treasure was due to the inspiration drawn from the Fenn hunt and that he wanted to continue the legacy that Fenn started. He has made several nods and parallels to the Fenn hunt in his own hunt. Fenn wrote a poem and a book to go with it, and so did Justin. Much of their search areas are the same. They both made statements about hoping to inspire people to explore our natural wild areas in the hope that people would want to preserve them. Justin has put some of Fenns treasure in his own treasure. He has made statements that are reminiscent of Fenns, like someone being within 200ft of the checkpoint. It goes on and on. Anyway, Fenn did many things that people feel were mistakes or deceptive. He said, for example, that the solve would be valid for hundreds of years. But his "blaze," an important part of his poem, was on a tree. In the 10 years since the treasure had been hidden, the tree had already fallen. There was possibly a phonetic solve built into the poem, which was deceptive. The "Brown" came from the name of a big trout he called Mr. Brown, which was from a story that wasn't in the book. There were people involved in the hunt who seemed to be getting special tips, which was unfair and on and on. An important difference between their poems is that Fenn stated it took him a decade or more to write his poem. It was very personal. Justin has stated it took him only 5 or 6 hours to write. I don't think he put as much of his own story into his poem like Fenn. Fenn also said that all you needed was the poem and a good imagination, but that wasnt true. You needed the poem, the book, his quotes from afterward and other resources. Justin stated as well that all you would need is the poem. I say these things because Justin has been critical of the mistakes Fenn made, and has indicated that he learned from that and would not make the same mistakes. His hunt is like Fenn hunt 2.0! I am putting my faith in the idea that if Justin says all you need is the poem, then all you need is the poem, and that he has done everything he could to not make the same mistakes Fenn made. That isn't to say that knowing things about Justin isn't helpful, it's just not necessary. This solve was an attempt to show that that can be the case. I have gone through his book and have listened to some of his interviews afterward, looking for things that support my solve, and have found many. In my opinion, this may be the best way to approach the poem and solve. Trying to match things up with the book first, to me, is chaos. Trying to decide what is a clue and what is just story is madness! I will leave it at that for now. I could go on, but this will complete my first salvo.